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Can't remember who this quote came from but it went something like this: "The only two things that call their clients 'users' is drugs and software."
by SamuelAdams 6y ago
Can't remember who this quote came from but it went something like this: "The only two things that call their clients 'users' is drugs and software."
- rapnie 6y agoI try to avoid the term in docs and discussion, but find that - where I can't refer to stakeholder names directly - I fall back to "the people that use the software", which.. might be more efficiently named 'users'.
- byecomputer 6y agoI mean, the play on words in the gp is cute, and gives one the big Hmmm, but the accepted term is 'user' and some hills aren't worth dying on
- salawat 6y agoIt actually depends a lot on circumstance and half the work of software engineering is figuring out your different use cases. Every aspect of a system can have a different beneficiary. Data analysts are interested in different things than end consumers, who are interested in different things than admins or sponsors... If you can't split a generic abstraction of 'users' down further, you're either umplementing a very generic tool, or you're simply not standing up a system where the idea of access control is important. The rub is how nefariously sneaky that access control abstraction can be employed as a fundamental tool.